PSYC-101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Confirmation Bias, Mental Event
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Psychology: the scientific study of overt behavior and mental processes. Introspect: to carefully examine your own thoughts, feelings, and sensations. Overt behavior: any directly observable action or response. Covert behavior: any subjective mental event, such as dreaming and remembering. Critical thinking: a reflection in which a person decides whether a belief can be supported by scientific theory and observation. Falsification: the deliberate attempt to uncover how a commonsense belief or scientific theory might be false. Uncritical acceptance: believing things are true because we would like them to be true. Confirmation bias: accepting information just because we notice and accept part of it. The mind cannot be fully understood from a subjective viewpoint. We often misunderstand ourselves and have false beliefs. What we think is common sense can be vague and inconsistent. They collect data to draw conclusions due to trends.
